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* [http://code.google.com/p/somaseek/ SomaFM] | |||
== Format Specific == | == Format Specific == |
Revision as of 03:29, 17 May 2011
General Tools
- GNU WGET
- Backing up a Wordpress site: "wget --no-parent --no-clobber --html-extension --recursive --convert-links --page-requisites --user=<username> --password=<password> <path>"
- cURL
- HTTrack - HTTrack options
- Heritrix -- what archive.org use
- Pavuk -- a bit flaky, but very flexible
- http://warrick.cs.odu.edu/warrick.html
- Beautiful Soup - Python library for web scraping
- Scrapy - Fast python library for web scraping
- Splinter - Web app acceptance testing library for Python -- could be used along with a scraping lib to extract data from hard-to-reach places
Hosted tools
Pinboard is a convenient social bookmarking service that will archive copies of all your bookmarks for online viewing. The catch is that it costs $9.25 just to join, plus $25/year for the archival feature and you can only download archives of your 25 most recent bookmarks in a particular category. This may pose problems if you ever need to get your data out in a hurry.